Contemporary European Cinema: Crisis Narratives and Narratives in Crisis Contributor(s): Corbalán, Ana M. (Editor), Kaklamanidou, Betty (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1138564400 ISBN-13: 9781138564404 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $161.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2018 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Sociology - General - Performing Arts | Film - General |
Dewey: 791.436 |
LCCN: 2018035736 |
Series: Cultural Politics of Media and Popular Culture |
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.05 lbs) 210 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: This book offers a range of accounts of the state of European Cinema in a specific sociopolitical era: that of the global economic crisis that began in 2008 and the more recent refugee and humanitarian crisis. With the recession having become a popular theme of economic, demographic, and sociological research in recent years, this volume examines representations of the crisis and its attendant market instability and mistrust of neoliberal political systems in film. It thus sheds light on the mediation, reimagination, and reformulation of recent history in the depiction of personal, cultural, and political memories, and raises new questions about crisis narratives in European film, asking whether the theoretical notion of national cinema is less or more powerful during moments of sociopolitical turbulence, and investigating the kinds of cultural representations and themes that characterize the narratives of European documentary and fictional films from both small and large national markets. |